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Patented Feb. 8, 1887.

WITNEEEEEIZ UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

FREDERICK W. LYNN, OF NATICK, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- 7 V HALF TO ARTHUR W. PALMER, OF SAME PLACE."

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,327, dated February 8, 1887.

' Application filed November 13, 1886. Serial No. 218,824. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK W. LYNN, of N atick, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts have invented an Im- -provement in Spring-Buttons, of which the following is a specification. Y

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap, simple, convenient, and durable springbutton, adapted more especially for use upon the rear portion of boys pants andjackets or waists, as a means for connecting the same together, or the top of the pants to thebottom of the jacket or waist, so as to permit the buttons to yield when too much strain is brought to 5 bear upon the same, as is the case when the wearer stoops or bends over where the common rigidly-attached buttons are employed for the purpose, which frequently causes the garments to be torn or the buttons to be broken off, causing much vexation and trouble; and

it consists in the construction, combination,

and arrangement of a spring-button fastening, as hereinafter more fully described, and particularly set forth in the claim. 5 Figure 1 represents an edge elevation of my invention as in use, showing the separate parts or the two garments connected together. 7 Fig. 2 represents a perspective view of the same disconnected. Fig. 3 represents a similar view 3 showing an attachingplate instead of a bent wire loop. Fig. 4 represents a rear elevation showing a bent wire loop for attaching the spring-button. Fig. 5 represents a vertical sectional elevation showing the springbutton in position connecting the two portions of garments.

A represents a portion of a garment, as a waist, and B represents the other portion of a garment, as the pants, or any other articles of 4 wearing-apparel that it may be desirable to a spiral coiled wire spring, F, having a bear-- ing at its lower end on theplate or wire loop C, and its upper end resting in contact with the 5 projecting eye of the button D, which eye is placed upon the vertical bar E, and is adapted to be slid downward. on the same when strain or pressure is applied in a vertical direction, so as to compress the said spring F, through the medium of the garments connected to the said loop or plate C and to the said button D, as shown in Figs. 1 and 5.

It will be seen and understood that if the loop or plate C be secured to the rear portion of the waist A at two or more points, or as desired. and the top portion of thepants Bbe provided with button-holes corresponding with the said buttons D, and are buttoned together, or are buttoned with the same, any severe vertical strain upon those parts of the garments thus connected, as in case of the wearer stooping, said parts will yield sufficiently to counteract the tendency to tear apart the garments or break off the buttons or otherwise injure the same, as well as to increase the comfort and convenience of the wearer.

I contemplate securing this spring-button to the lower portion of the waists that have been previously provided with the usual buttons byplacing the broad lower end of the said loop C over such buttons, then drawing the narrow upper end ofthe loop down beneath such' buttons, and then buttoning the top of the pants onto the springbuttons D, as shown in Fig. 1, and the form of loop, as shown in Fig. 4, is well adapted for garments as now made and heretofore in general use; but I prefer the construction of the loop as shown in Fig. 2, adapted to be sewed to the garment, or if provided with a plate having holes or per- 3 forations by which it may be sewed upon the garment, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5,it is the best adapted. to take the place of the rigidly-attaohed buttons heretofore employed for the purpose.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- The plate or loop C, having the vertical bar E, provided with the coiled spring F, and the button D, adapted to slide on the said bar and g5 compress the spring, as described, and for the purposes set forth.

FREDERICK W. LYNN.

Witnesses: SILAS H. WHITCOMB, HERBERT E. PALMER. 

